Chapter Summaries

Sophia’s currency short-selling operation drove the Kingdom of Zesilia’s exchange rate into a collapse, earning Claire more than 1.39 billion in profit. A month later, Sophia’s messenger delivered Claire her share, contracts for two Magic Crystal mines, and a deed to a Magic Ore mine in Zesilia.

• Sophia borrowed and gathered most of the Kingdom of Zesilia’s currency, then sold it in massive waves as panic sent the exchange rate tumbling.
• The Kingdom of Zesilia tried to buy back its currency and stabilize the market, but Sophia’s selloffs and the public’s panic overwhelmed its efforts.
• After the market collapsed, Sophia began using Silver Dragon Coins to buy back currency and repay her loans, while Claire left the final profit calculation to her.
• More than a month later, Yuna told Claire that Sophia’s messenger had arrived, and Claire went to meet him.
• Sophia’s messenger gave Claire a Mite Bank black card holding more than 1.39 billion, contracts for two Magic Crystal mines, and a deed to a Magic Ore mine in the Kingdom of Zesilia.

Claire moved two Magic Crystal mines into the Small Plane, completing its basic magic-power cycle and helping its Laws develop. After she guided life force into the ocean and a tiny invertebrate was born, the World Heart began spinning rapidly and time in the Small Plane accelerated.

• Claire used a spatial Rune of God to take the two Magic Crystal mines from Fowler County and bring them into the Small Plane.
• Claire used the World Heart and the Laws of space to place the mines at a location she had calculated.
• The mines caused magic power to spread through the Small Plane, where Magic Plants appeared and a basic cycle between the mines, plants, and other matter formed.
• Claire sensed life gathering on the seabed and guided life force and the Laws of life until a sesame-seed-sized invertebrate appeared.
• The World Heart rose from Claire's hand, began rotating and emitting white light, and made the rapidly passing time around her look like a blur.

Claire watched the Small Plane develop animal life, then discovered that its World Heart resonated with the damaged godhead sealed in her mind. The World Heart restored part of the godhead, which then suddenly flew back into Claire’s head.

• Claire saw insects and aquatic creatures appear in the Small Plane as its time flow returned to normal.
• Claire sensed the World Heart’s resonance shaking the Netherworld Soul-Locking Hook around the damaged godhead in her mind.
• Claire cautiously loosened the Netherworld Soul-Locking Hook and released the godhead near the World Heart.
• The World Heart emitted white mist that the godhead absorbed, repairing some of its damage and strengthening its aura.
• Claire confirmed the World Heart remained unharmed, but the godhead flashed and shot back into her head before she could react.

After Claire gained the Authority of Order from the divine spark, she tested its effects and found it strengthened her spellcasting and prevented backlash. Back in Griffin Territory, she discovered that the white haze surrounding the land was her own Power of Faith, drawn toward the divine spark.

• Claire touched the divine spark in her mind and learned that it granted her authority over Order.
• Claire tested the authority by calming a whirlwind and found that it helped her construct powerful spells while safely dissipating a spell she abandoned.
• Claire concluded that Order could greatly increase her spellcasting speed and help her fight an ordinary Archmage, then returned to the Mage World.
• Claire left her manor and saw white smoke across Nafu City, though Yuna could not see it.
• Claire flew above Nafu City and realized the haze covered Griffin Territory, then watched it drift into her damaged divine spark and recognized it as her Power of Faith.

Claire absorbed the faith of her subjects and broke through the Archmage bottleneck, reaching a state she named Archmage (Pseudo). Realizing that the divine spark could grow stronger through faith, she decided to establish a hidden religion in Griffin Territory.

• Claire saw how Nafu City's residents had benefited from her rule and how many sincerely wished her well.
• The divine spark absorbed the Power of Faith, causing Claire's strength to surge and her Archmage bottleneck to loosen.
• Claire broke through the bottleneck but recognized that her new state was not true Archmage, naming it Archmage (Pseudo).
• Claire examined the half-filled divine spark and guessed that more Power of Faith could lead her to the true Archmage realm.
• Claire planned to establish her own organized religion in Griffin Territory while concealing it from the Church of Light.

Claire considered ways to build a faith-based institution that could gather Power of Faith while keeping her safe from the Church of Light, then went out to seek inspiration and Nafu City's history. At the city gate, she discovered a destitute woman whose family could not afford medical care despite the aid Claire believed Griffin Territory provided, and summoned Regan in fury.

• Claire weighed establishing a Church of the Sea God against creating a heroic spirit, then decided to look for a historical figure she could use.
• Claire told Regan to find folk tales and disguised herself while asking Nafu City's residents about its past.
• Claire found no notable local figures and headed toward Gilded Rose Town to ask its villagers about old rumors.
• At the city gate, Claire met a starving-looking woman selling wild vegetables, who explained that her injured husband and sick child needed money for treatment.
• Claire questioned how the family could be unable to afford care under Griffin Territory's compensation and subsidy programs, then shouted for Regan to come to the city gate.

Claire and Regan uncovered corruption in Nakin Town after a miner’s wife described unpaid wages, missing injury compensation, unaffordable medical care, and threats against anyone who reported the abuses. Claire ordered an investigation with the Knight Squad and apologized to the woman for failing her.

• Regan rushed to the city gate after Claire called for him, and Claire urged a frightened woman to tell the officials what had happened.
• The woman explained that her injured husband had received no wages or compensation, and Regan learned that Nakin Town had falsely claimed workplace injury subsidies.
• Regan gave the woman Silver Coins for her sick children, but she revealed that medical fees had become unaffordable despite the territory’s subsidies.
• The woman said Nakin Town officials had threatened to break the legs of anyone who reported them, and Regan realized why residents feared coming forward.
• Claire ordered Regan to investigate with the Knight Squad, then told the woman, “It was I who failed you.”

After corruption in Nakin Town came to light, Claire struggled with her failure to protect the people and watched the guilty officials and merchants be executed. Seeing how the crowd’s faith gathered in her divine spark gave her an idea for a plan to prevent similar abuses at their root.

• Regan told Claire that Nakin Town’s officials and merchants had exploited miners, controlled clinics, stolen handicrafts, and caused nearly four million Gold Coins in losses.
• Claire learned that the corruption had persisted for nearly four years and that the Steward’s Office had begun anti-corruption investigations in other towns.
• Regan asked whether Claire would attend the executions, and Claire questioned whether she had the nerve to go after failing the town.
• Claire watched the executions from the air using invisibility magic and felt troubled by the crowd’s praise and the Power of Faith flowing into her divine spark.
• Claire realized the divine spark could offer a better approach than heroic spirits and the Sea God, and teleported away to make a plan.

Claire visited Boli, gave him a stone and a Meditation Method, and used the divine spark to connect him to the world's Laws. After beginning to practice, Boli grew hopeful that he could become a wizard.

• Boli pretended to practice magic beneath a tree when a black-cloaked young woman appeared and said she was a wizard.
• Uncle Karen could not see the woman, and she pressed her thumb to Boli's forehead, placed a stone in his hand, and told him they would meet again.
• Claire watched from above the village as the divine spark's Power of Faith flowed into her and threads of the world's Laws connected to Boli.
• That night, Boli studied the knowledge Claire had placed in his mind and practiced with the glowing stone, which gathered energy around him.
• The next day, Boli sat beneath the tree to practice Claire's Meditation Method and began hoping he could become a wizard.

After six years of secret cultivation, Boli met John, a third-rank wizard who offered to take him as a disciple. A familiar voice told Boli to accept, and he left the village with John to begin his wizard training.

• Boli spent years practicing the Meditation Method and secretly learned to cast a fireball.
• John found Boli cultivating beneath the village tree, recognized his wizarding talent, and offered to make him his disciple.
• Boli told John he had found the Meditation Method in a buried treasure chest and learned basic facts about the Wizard World.
• A familiar unseen voice told Boli to promise John, and Boli agreed to become his disciple.
• John told Boli about the conflict between his wizard school and the Antonio School, then took him away after he said goodbye to his parents.

Boli rose through Dickens School after Claire gave him powerful cultivation books and repeatedly encouraged him. Years later, as a Level Four Wizard poised to lead the school, he had stopped expecting to see her again, but events were about to disrupt his peaceful life.

• Boli entered Dickens School, advanced to a Level One Wizard, and received the school's secret manuals from John.
• Claire visited Boli, replaced the manuals with hundreds of books, and promised they would meet again.
• After Boli reached Level Two, Claire returned with potions, explained that the books came from Antonio School, and urged him to confess his feelings to a witch.
• Boli's confession succeeded, and he later advanced to Level Three, astonishing John.
• Boli reached Level Four and became the expected next leader of Dickens School, while years passed without another meeting with Claire.

After the Antonio School destroyed Boli’s village and school, he escaped with Claire and learned that he was the world’s Child of Destiny, destined to overthrow the Antonio School. Claire left him with that mission, promising they would meet again.

• Boli returned to his village and found his parents, brothers, and the villagers dead, then discovered that wizards had attacked it.
• Boli reached his school and saw it burning; John rescued him from pursuing wizards but died so Boli could escape.
• Claire found Boli hiding in a cave and told him that the Antonio School had destroyed his school and killed everyone else there.
• Claire showed Boli the Threads of Fate and told him that he was the Child of Destiny and Incarnation of the God of Order.
• Claire said Boli was destined to overthrow the Antonio School, then left and promised they would meet again.

After the Antonio School destroyed the Dickens School, Boli built a resistance with Claire’s guidance but struggled to train his growing forces. Claire gave him the Magic Swordmaster cultivation method, and Boli’s increasingly successful campaigns helped his revolutionary organization become a rival to the Antonio School, leading to a new world war.

• Boli learned that the Antonio School had killed everyone at the Dickens School except him, then began recruiting other schools and wizards to oppose it.
• As his organization grew, Boli’s forces suffered a major defeat because his self-taught wizards lacked systematic training.
• Claire visited Boli, reassured him that he would win, and gave him a book containing the Magic Swordmaster cultivation method.
• Boli established a religious organization and used the new path and a perfect Meditation Method to attract followers and defectors from the Antonio School.
• After Boli reached the level of an Epic Wizard, his forces began a full-scale revolutionary war as many Antonio School wizards defected, and fighting swept across the Wizard World.

As Boli’s revolution brought the Antonio School to the brink of defeat, Claire restored her damaged godhead and deepened her mastery of the Laws of order. Boli reached the school’s headquarters expecting to kill Antonio, but Claire revealed that she had always been Antonio and challenged him to fight.

• Boli’s revolutionary army seized Antonio School strongholds while Claire absorbed the changing Laws of order and nearly restored her godhead.
• Boli led the assault on Antonio Academy’s headquarters and charged alone into its core to find Antonio.
• Boli confronted Daren and several other epic wizards, then learned from them that Daren was not Antonio.
• Claire emerged from the shadows and told Boli that she was Antonio, shattering his confidence in his destiny.
• Claire explained that she had arranged Boli’s victories and advancement, but Boli rejected her claims and prepared to fight.
• Claire drew her greatsword and challenged Boli to prove that he was the Child of Destiny.

After the revolution toppled the Antonio School, the Wizard Association and Church of Order took control of the Wizard World. Boli learned that Claire had secretly orchestrated the revolution to gain faith and preserve her influence, then left her with a final question about whether an arranged life was worth living.

• The revolutionaries took over the Antonio School’s assets, established the Wizard Association, and spread the Church of Order throughout the Wizard World.
• Boli asked Claire whether she had planted people in the revolutionary army, and Claire admitted that at least half its high-ranking wizards had been hers.
• Boli asked why Claire had engineered a rebellion against her own rule, and she claimed she had acted on a whim.
• Claire privately reflected that the revolution had built her Church of Order, gathered Power of Faith, concealed her identity, and kept wizards under her control.
• Boli said he was going to visit his wife, then turned back at the doorway and asked Claire whether a life arranged by someone else was worth living.

Boli confronted Claire about having controlled his life, but accepted that he could choose his own path from then on. Claire completed her Order Divinity, entered the Archmage realm, and brought Horna to the Mage World before returning to her Mage Tower to continue her research.

• Boli asked Claire whether his life had been worth living if she had planned it all, and Claire reminded him that he now had a life and could make his own choices.
• Boli told Claire to find someone else to deceive next time, then left with a faint smile.
• Claire drew in the remaining Power of Faith, completed her Order Divinity, and entered the Archmage realm.
• Claire visited Horna and decided to take him from his owl body despite his protests.
• Claire brought Horna through a teleportation passage to the Mage World, released him at her mansion, and told him to stay in the city.
• Claire returned to her Mage Tower, where Isaac and the others from the Academy of Sciences were staying, and resumed her research.

Claire showed Horna the Book of Order, a divine artifact she had created by transforming the Order Divinity, and explained its power to alter a world's rules. Horna feared Claire intended to kill him for learning about it, and Claire pressed her palm to his head as he felt his soul begin to leave his body.

• Melly practiced a first-tier spell, and Horna offered to teach her while boasting that he was a legendary wizard.
• Claire appeared, told Melly to keep practicing, and took Horna with her to the Mage Tower in Nafu City.
• Claire brought Horna to her private laboratory, where he saw the glowing Book of Order.
• Claire explained that she had transformed the Order Divinity into the Book of Order, increasing her control over its Laws and authority.
• Horna feared Claire would kill him to keep the divine artifact secret, and Claire pressed her palm against his head as he felt his head splitting apart.

Claire transformed Horna into the spirit of the Book of Order, giving the artifact an artificial intelligence while retaining the highest authority over its powers. The Book of Order’s power spread across Griffin Territory, and Horna accepted his new duties.

• Claire inspected the Book of Order, then joined Horna’s soul with it using the book’s power.
• A wave of energy and a visible barrier spread from the Mage Tower across Griffin Territory before merging into the land.
• The residents of Nafu City felt calmer and more energetic after the light and energy passed.
• Horna emerged from the Book of Order as an owl-shaped soul and told Claire he felt well.
• Claire explained that Horna’s authority over the Book of Order remained subordinate to hers, and Horna accepted his restricted role.

Regan issued a territory-wide notice announcing the Book of Laws and requiring civil servants to swear on it when exercising his authority. Residents struggled to understand the measure, and some civil servants dismissed it as a temporary policy they could ignore.

• Crowds gathered at notice boards across Griffin Territory, and a Magic School student projected the notice so everyone could read it.
• A resident explained that the Book of Laws recorded Griffin Territory’s laws and that civil servants had to swear on it before acting on Regan’s behalf.
• Most residents remained unsure whether the Book of Laws could prevent civil servants from becoming corrupt.
• Regan distributed more than a thousand copies to town Steward’s Offices and ordered civil servants to memorize the laws and carry the book while on duty.
• Some civil servants scoffed at the rule and planned to resume doing whatever they wanted after briefly complying.

Broge returned home to stop Daor from seizing his family’s land and house without compensation, and demanded that the law enforcement officer swear on the Book of Laws. When Daor touched it, a phantom owl named Horna emerged, leaving everyone stunned.

• Broge rushed back to his village and joined his family as Daor and other Civil Servants moved to take their home and farmland.
• Daor claimed the land was being requisitioned for an agritourism estate and offered Broge’s father twenty Gold Coins instead of proper compensation.
• Broge challenged Daor’s authority and demanded that he swear on the Book of Laws, while the villagers stepped forward to support Broge’s family.
• Daor placed his hand on the Book of Laws, which opened and released a blue phantom owl that asked if this was its first case.
• Daor pointed at Horna and demanded to know what it was and how it had emerged from the book.